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January 3, 2023 – Mercedes-Benz has announced astatine CES 2023 this week that it is utilizing NVIDIA’s Omniverse level to plan and program manufacturing and assembly facilities arsenic portion of the company’s efforts to digitize its accumulation process

By tapping into NVIDIA AI and metaverse technologies, the automaker is capable to make feedback loops to assistance trim waste, alteration vigor depletion and continuously heighten quality, according to NVIDIA.

Mercedes-Benz has been working with NVIDIA to make software-defined vehicles. Its upcoming fleets volition beryllium built connected NVIDIA DRIVE Orin centralized compute, with intelligent driving capabilities tested and validated successful the NVIDIA DRIVE Sim platform, built connected Omniverse. NVIDIA stated that the automaker’s latest announcement infuses AI and metaverse technologies adjacent further into the Mercedes-Benz improvement process with smarter, much businesslike manufacturing.

Mercedes-Benz plans to commencement accumulation of its caller dedicated level for electrical vehicles astatine its works successful Rastatt, Germany. The tract presently manufactures the automaker’s A- and B-Class arsenic good arsenic the compact SUV GLA and the all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQA.

Using Omniverse, experts from NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz operations are mounting up a “digital first” readying process for the works that won’t disrupt the existent accumulation of compact car models astatine the site. This blueprint volition past beryllium rolled retired to different parts of the planetary Mercedes-Benz accumulation web for much agile conveyance manufacturing, according to NVIDIA.

Developing with Digital Twins

Omniverse is NVIDIA’s unfastened 3D improvement level that enables enterprises and institutions to physique and run digital twins for concern and technological usage cases. Based connected Universal Scene Description (USD), it allows enterprises and developers to conception customized 3D pipelines to interruption down information silos and interact with a single-source-of-truth presumption of their aggregated simulations.

With Omniverse, Mercedes-Benz planners tin entree the integer duplicate of the factory, reviewing and optimizing the works arsenic needed. Every alteration tin beryllium rapidly evaluated and validated successful the virtual world, past implemented successful the existent satellite to guarantee maximum ratio and ergonomics for mill workers.

Additionally, Mercedes-Benz tin synchronize works locations anyplace successful the satellite by connecting Omniverse with its in-house MO360 Data Platform. This capableness streamlines operations crossed the company’s planetary accumulation web and enables over-the-air bundle updates to manufacturing equipment.

For much accusation connected NVIDIA’s Omniverse level for integer process planning, delight sojourn the company’s website.

Image / video credit: NVIDIA

Sam Sprigg

Sam is the Founder and Managing Editor of Auganix. With a inheritance successful probe and study writing, helium has been covering XR manufacture quality for the past 5 years.